Turkish court sentences gunman in Hrant Dink case to nearly 23 years in prison

ISTANBUL (A.A) - July 25, 2011 - A juvenile court in Istanbul has sentenced Ogun Samast, the gunman in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, to nearly 23 years in prison.
The court ruled Monday that Samast shall be sent to prison for 22 years 10 months on charges of "premeditated murder" and "possession of an unregistered weapon".
Dink, the editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, was shot dead outside the newspaper's offices in Istanbul's Sisli neighborhood on January 19, 2007.
Police arrested the gunman Ogun Samast a day after the murder, and since then, Samast was being tried at a juvenile court as he had been a minor at the time of the crime.
Last month, Colonel Ali Oz, the then provincial gendarmerie commander in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, and Captain Metin Yildiz, chief of intelligence unit of provincial gendarmerie command in Trabzon, were sentenced to 6 months in jail for "misconduct" in Hrant Dink case.